Court-ordered plan to reduce prison overcrowding approved
January 14, 2010
Sacramento, California: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to reduce overcrowding in California prison was approved of on Tuesday, January 12, by a panel of three judges. The court-ordered plan aims to reduce prison populations by 40,000 inmates by 2012.[1]
The Governor's plan includes keeping prisoners home with satellite tracking, allowing some felons to serve in county prisons instead of state prisons and reducing the sentences for crimes against property. This plan is the second proposed after the first one, in October, was refused by the judges saying that it did not meet target populations or deadlines.[1]
The panel of judges includes U.S. District Judges Thelton Henderson and Lawrence Karlton and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt.[1]
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California
State courts:
California Supreme Court • California Courts of Appeal • California Superior Courts
State resources:
Courts in California • California judicial elections • Judicial selection in California
